LOVE the new updates with the classic fresh announcement. EXCITED ASF
But can you please clarify if the progression to TBC ends at TBC or continues to the next expansions like before?
Please say it ends with TBC Era.
I’ll play it forever,
Thanks
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This. I probably won’t touch Classic Fresh if the following TBC was going to become WotLK, then… shudder Cata… and everything else…
I’m worried because they aren’t starting it at TBC - they’re starting it at Vanilla, expansion “progression” is already in the timeline. Why not just a fresh TBC server? The only reason I can see to lock people out of TBC content for a year is because they want some sense of “relive the original content release sequence” and not one of “let people who want to play TBC play TBC”.
The funny thing about things like Cataclysm Classic and MoP Classic and other things no one asked for is that theres a section in these forums called “Classic Connections 2004-2010”. Cata was end of 2010 so sort of maybe excusable but MoP was 2012… so not even a “Classic” by Blizzard’s own forums definition… gottem
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I just noticed that at the bottom of the announcement roadmap that shows “Classic”, Classic Fresh and SoD plans there’s the following line:
“MORE NEWS BEYOND THIS ROADMAP TO BE SHARED AND FEATURES WILL EVOLVE BASED ON PLAYER FEEDBACK. CONTENT AND TIMING SUBJECT TO CHANGE.”
All hope is not yet lost! The US forums users have been raising hell asking the same question as here, it seems impossible to me that Blizz doesn’t know. Keep up the good fight and MAYBE they’ll listen.
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Yes, it’s just too early to tell. TBC Classic won’t release for another year and we are talking what will happen after its last phase. It depends on what the population will look like after the last raid. If the population is low they will progress it to Wrath to “revive” the server.
What we can do util then (approximately 2 years period) to use forums, X, reddit etc. to ask for Era servers. And keep the population stable throughout TBC.
The biggest issue is they can’t really say for sure atm as it will depend highly on how the servers look in a year or 2.
I’m game for tbc era and wrath era, maybe this is the reroll where it happens. Maybe at the end of tbc they do the “stay on tbc era or progress to wrath” move along with a clone service if you want both.
… and our population of the BC realm depends to a large degree on what wll happen later on. I for one am not going to roll on a server that will eventually progress to Cata once again. A server turning into permanent BC and Wrath servers, yes I’d go there.
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lmao, in Elon’s dumb dumb dreams only
You are right that the best thing we can do is post feedback. It is disheartening to see that Blizz seems to ignore the EU forums and only ever post on the US forums, occasionally copypasting major announcements to the EU forums when they have to, but it’s better than doing nothing.
It’s still within the realm of possibility that some form of TBC Era server is launched next week, albeit not explicitly mentioned on the roadmap post - they did say that things were subject to change.
@Ironhorns are you Vanillataur on the US forums? haha
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But we have vanilla Era, why many players still want fresh? If we get TBC Era, players 1 year later will start asking for fresh TBC. Isn’t it better to get rotating servers every 3-4 years. What would happen to the amount of gold the server would accumulate?
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I’m not even bothering with these fresh realms until I know for sure whether or not there will be a forced “upgrade” to Crapaclysm - which would make all my efforts and progress a total waste of time, money and energy.
Already been burned once, seeing my Wrath character thrown down the garbage chute with the forced Crapaclysm and I’m not going to be burned again, lesson well and truly learned!
For now I’m just sticking right here on my basic Classic Era realm. Let the zoomers zoom.
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This is how I’m looking at it too. I really don’t want to put time in until I know that it’s not going to all be thrown away in a couple of years. I don’t even feel good about playing Classic Era now because I don’t know if I’ll be swapping over to a fresh server in a few days. If Blizz refuses to answer for a year… well, I can just unsub for a year until the answer is known.
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Unsubbing is my current modus operandi. I sub for a month or so, play my char as long as I’m interested, and then cancel the sub when I need a break.
There’s no rush, I don’t need to be anywhere in a hurry or catch up with anything, I don’t care if it takes me a year to get to level cap. Not even bothered to join a guild as I’m treating the game like a single player game where I fire up my char, and do a few quests - and the game ends at 60. It’s so casual that it’s almost ‘hardcore casual.’
Of course if they gave me a static TBC or Wrath server that would change very, very quickly and I’d start to take far more of a long term interest in WoW. I might even create a second account so I can have more alts.
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My prefered way to go about this would be that 1 year after TBC is released we get a choice to progress to the next expansion and/or clone our characters to a new TBC Era server, so we can continue our journey on WotLK and if we ever feel like going back to TBC we still got that option
It’s a bit scary to imagine that eventually we would have a Classic Era server, a TBC Era server, maybe a WotLK Era server, 2 progressive servers trying to catch up to retail and the Retail server
our community is getting scattered, but maybe that’s the best way to retain our playerbase, by giving players the expansions they want
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Room for 50 now 
I totally agree to this. Freedom of choice is the best was of keeping everybody happy and subbed!
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It’s basicly a test mode. They will see what are the numbers/interest during TBC and then announce a possible WOTLK or reset.
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It’s quite obvious that they didn’t announce WOTLK because they want to gauge it first to see if that is viable, but I can almost 100% assure you that this will not be “TBC Forever”. And you think you will play it forever, which is nice, but the playerbase won’t and it will be a graveyard just like ERA, once it has ran its course.
These seasonal servers should have a destination, always, even if it’s to retail or classic progression servers, but what I don’t think they will do is take it beyond WOTLK, or leave it in a “forever” state.
what a trash attitude, I bet you’re a lot of fun at parties (implying you ever get invited to any)
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Will these fresh servers be transformed directly into TBC after 1 year?
I play very little, that’s why I want to play only on a permanent server that can be one of Classic, TBC, or Wotlk. Right now that is Era classic.
Perhaps if you announce permanent TBC and Wotlk, I will also play there - not very much but knowing I can come back anytime to progress my chars, I am not interested in seasons, nothing against them. Free copy, not transfer, from season servers or from permanent servers up through these expansions will also be cool.
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my understanding is it starts the cycle over, but I have no interest in Vanilla. I only want TBC
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What does my attitude have to do with me pointing out something that is as predictable as the sun rising, that has already happened before? And thank you for explaining your own insult, lmao.
How can you even think that I am wrong on this? Players always flock to the next new thing once the old thing has been completed, and the more players leave the less able you will be to do any activity. What happens then? It snowballs until it’s dead just like ERA. The fact is that once Sunwell farming has become old people WILL leave the game, and it will die if Blizzard doesn’t move it on to WOTLK.
Well if Era is a graveyard, there’s something wrong with my vision … are all the players I see there, play with and talk to only ghosts? We’re happy, and I wish the same for the TBC corwd - I would even play there myself.
And if a small pop BC forever server would keep this small portion of WoW players subbed and playing instead of unsubbed and grumbling … would it hurt you?
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